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B. E. THORPE.

EYEGLASS POLISHER.

No. 399,450. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

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, invented a new and Improved Eyeglass-P01 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD E. THORPE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNQR TO HIMSELF AND HARRY ROBINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

-POL|SHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,450, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed November 8, 188

T aZZ whom it. 'nmy Concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD E. THOIZPE, of

the city, coun ty, and State of New York, have isher, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to providea simple and convenient polisher for eyeglasses,

spectacles, and analogous articles; and to this end the invention consists of a centrallyfolded backing or body, a lining of polishing material-such as chamois-and an interposed layer of viscid material by which the backing or body and the polishing material are united.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved eyeglass-polisher.

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the same, representing the pol isher as it appears when in use in the polishing of one of the lenses of a pair of eyeglasses; and Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of one of the leaves of the polisher.

- In constructing the polisher forming the subject-matter of this application I provide an outer backing or'body, 10, of any proper flexible material, leather preferably being employed for this purpose. To this backing or body I connect a sheet, 11,-ot polishing materialsuch as ch amois t-he connection being preferably established by means of a layer of 8; Serial No. 290,282. (110 model.)

viscid material 12. Although the polisher might be of any proper form,-I prefer tomake it substantially as shown, the two united sheets of material being bent at a, forming two lea es,fA and B.

In using the polisher the article to be polished is grasped in one hand and the polisher is taken between the fingers and-thumb of the other hand and applied to the lens, as indicated in Fig. 2, and, being so applied, the two leaves may be moved in any desired direction across the lens-facesthat is, the leaf shown in advance in Fig. 2 may be moved to the position indicated by dotted lines in said figure, or it may be drawn directly up toward the bend a. In fact, there' is no limit to the direction which may be imparted to the leaves in the act of polishing.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 7 4 1. A polisher consisting, essentially, of an outer backing or body of flexible material and an inner sheet .of polishing material, the sheet of polishing material being connected to the backing or body, substantially as described.

2. A polisher consisting, essentially, of an outer backing or body, a sheet of polishing EDWARD KENT, J r., C. SEDGWICK.

material, as chamois, and an interposed layer. 

